In early 1980s I had a hand crank mimeograph machine. Here's
some art in my newsletter resulting from a couple of passes through the
machine with two colors of ink.

What newspapers and magazines have said
about me

1981
Soon after graduation I bought a second hand mimeograph machine (this
was before the Internet became wide spread) and started cranking out
my own publication. It didn't make money, but self expression
was the goal. I paid the bills by working as a custodian.

Being a janitor didn't mean that I couldn't be "the director of
a think tank." My correspondence with people evolved into, sort
of, a think tank that was featured, many years back, in the business
section of the TACOMA NEWS TRIBUNE.
Cranking Out Happiness at Robert's Think Tank.

1984
Continued correspondence got me in touch with a bazaar network of
artists called the MAIL ART NETWORK. Mail artists send things
like doodles, manifestoes and old shoes to one another, all over the
world.

This interactive network of common folk is sort of a "pre Internet"
exchange of creativity. Mail Art shows would take place (and
are still taking place) all over the world where people would collect
the mail they got, put it on display and call it a show. In 1983-84,
I did a show. See this article in the BELLINGHAM HERAD.Mail Art Beauty Pageant

1989
In 1989, my letter to the editor of a local paper inspired one woman
to throw out her car keys. They did a feature on her.

1991
In 1991 and again in 1993, I bicycled all the way across the US.
See this 1993 article on my cross country tours in KLIPSUN MAGAZINE
as published by the journalism department of Western Washington University.
About my bike trip across USA